Selena ROBERTS and Drew ROSENHAUS

Professional Sports: Are Fans the Losers?
Monday, November 2, 2009

Selena ROBERTS joined Sports Illustrated as a Senior Writer January 1, 2008.  She previously covered the New York Knicks, the New Jersey Nets, tennis, and the Olympics for The New York Times and more recently wrote a sports column at least twice a week.  Before coming to The Times in 1996, she worked at other papers reporting on the NFL, NBA and auto racing.

In 2007 Roberts was awarded first place for sports commentary by the New York Press Association and was selected for a Front Page Award by the Newswomen's Club of New York for her column, "Big Time College Sports May Be Due for an Audit."

The author of A Necessary Spectacle: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the Tennis Match that Leveled the Game (2005), her book A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez (2009) made headlines with allegations the game's highest-paid player took steroids.

Drew ROSENHAUS has negotiated over a billion dollars in NFL contracts over the past two years and is the only agent ever to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated.  He represents over 100 active NFL players, the most of any agent in the NFL, which led the Sports Business Journal to rank him the number one agent for total contracts negotiated. Some of his superstar clients include Terrell Owens and Chad Ocho Cinco (Johnson).

His book, Next Question: An NFL Super Agent's Proven Game Plan for Business Success, was released September 2008 and autobiography, A Shark Never Sleeps: Wheeling and Dealing with the NFL's Most Ruthless Agent in 1998.  He has also made cameo appearances in Jerry Maguire and Any given Sunday and is a regular contributor to the HBO series Arli$$.

A frequent national commentator on current sports issues, he’sappeared on Primetime Live, Nightline and ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption and Outside the Lines.  Rosenhaus also appeared in a national Burger King commercial with his client “the King.”